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The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

Frida Kahlo, 2025

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.68K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We're going back to our 2013 coverage of this iconic artist who turned her pain, passion, fear, and unique outlook on life into remarkable and memorable art. Her bold subject and color choices (as well as her bold life choices) defied convention and sent her to the heights of international acclaim. Our 2026 Field Trip to London sold out in record time, but you can get your name on the waitlist at Like Minds Travel. Thanks to our sponsors: Audible: Listen to the new Pride and Prejudice at audible.com/janeausten Wayfair: Every style, every home. Wayfair.com Honeylove: Comfortable and innovative bras and shapewear, 20%off at honeylove.com/historychicks Blissy: Silk pillowcases for improved hair and skin, 30%off at blissy.com/historychicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

0:07.6

Sometimes, sometimes we give you a little peek behind the curtain. We knew we wanted to revisit one of our former subjects. And it is that time of year where the weather is turning crispy and our thoughts turn to Octoberfest. And

0:23.7

Octoberfest led to the fact that Frida Kahlo's father, Wilhelm, his birth name, was a German

0:32.4

immigrant to Mexico. Also, simultaneously in the United States, not in Mexico, but in the United States, it is Hispanic

0:41.0

Heritage Month right now. And so these facts swimming around in our brains led us to one subject,

0:49.1

Frida Kahlo, who we haven't really seen in a number of years. This episode is from the way, way back machine.

0:57.4

She's episode 42.

0:59.2

From 2013, we were just baby podcasters back then.

1:03.1

Like our kids were eight years old.

1:04.9

I know.

1:05.4

Yeah.

1:06.6

I love that.

1:07.6

So that's how our brains were,

1:08.9

kind of like one of those family circus cartoons of Billy going through the neighborhood and a bunch of squiggles to get to the mailbox.

1:16.9

Also, I'm going to throw in a Gilmore girl's reference right now, the sentence that Lorelai Gilmore says before she says monkey monkey underpants.

1:25.5

Please Google that. So now without further ado, and this was too much ado in the first place, let us bring you

1:34.1

to Frida Kahlo from 2013.

1:38.0

And we will be back next time with a fully new show that we are currently researching.

1:43.6

Now on with the show.

1:46.1

And here's your 30-second summary.

1:50.7

143 paintings, 41 years of pain, 32nd surgeries, 28 courses, 28 courses, a ribbon around a bomb,

1:59.9

and one eyebrow.

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